Good bye tax disc hello new rules

From October we shall be saying good bye to our old friend the TAX disc. On this article I shall go over the new rules WHICH I stress are a MUST read even if you think you know about the tax disc going you might not know the new rules!

TAX Disc

Well Lets start off with one thing most people should know by now from October the 1st 2014 you will no longer have to display the little round disc on your car.
However this has caused huge confusion for a lot of people.
Now your still have to pay for road tax just as you do now, either via the postoffice, online or via the phone. However now you won't be given the little round disc to display there is talk from the DVLA that if you tax via there online system they may allow you to print a kind of tax disc rather to remind you when its due rather than to display for law.

The other major change which many think is a NEW DVLA money spinner is that when you sell you car with remaining tax rather than the new owner getting to keep that tax it will be automatically refunded back to you this isn't optional, its in effort to stop the thousands of illegal vehicles on the road without insurance. However this adds a few problem 1 being that your only get refunded for months not weeks meaning if you have say 2 weeks left of road tax your get nothing back, and the new owner has to then tax from the start of the month meaning there also losing 2 weeks meaning the DVLA make 4 weeks extra revenue.
This change will also affect car dealers like our self's as we will no longer be able to sell cars with any remaining tax and also meaning now we will have to register more cars in OUR name if we wish to tax them for temporary pool cars.
The most important thing to note is if you buy a car YOU and YOU alone have the responsibility to tax your car as soon as you purchase it, as if caught by the police you will be fined for driving without tax because as soon as you purchased the car the old tax was VOID.

I myself feel there is some good points and some terrible points from scraping the tax disc first it will save the DVLA 10 Million pounds per year, however it makes things more complicated for elderly customers and people moving home or just non tech savvy people from checking when there car tax runs out meaning millions of innocent drivers could face fines.

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